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Bad Pamlöl More and more foods are prepared with cheap fat
More and more foods apparently contain cheap fat. This shows an analysis of the
Guide portal "Codecheck", which was recently published in Berlin. As reported by the news agency "dpa-AFX", the auditors had taken more than 115,000 food closer look and recognized that, for example, the number of products with palm oil has increased significantly since the beginning of the survey.
Experts have been warning of the health risks of palm oil for some time now
According to the analysis of the consumer portal revealed that since the survey began in late 2012, the number of food with palm oil has increased on average by 6.5 percent. In exceptional cases, such as nut and chocolate creams even increased by 26 percent. Ferrero's world-famous nut-nougat cream "Nutella" plays a key role in this, which consists of 20 percent palm oil per glass. Already weeks ago, experts in the ZDF business magazine "Wiso" had warned against the health risks of vegetable fat, which is extracted from the fruits and kernels of the oil palm.Cheap fat is also bad fat that damages our body sustainably. Image: ralwel - fotolia
Guide portal "Codecheck", which was recently published in Berlin. As reported by the news agency "dpa-AFX", the auditors had taken more than 115,000 food closer look and recognized that, for example, the number of products with palm oil has increased significantly since the beginning of the survey.
Experts have been warning of the health risks of palm oil for some time now
According to the analysis of the consumer portal revealed that since the survey began in late 2012, the number of food with palm oil has increased on average by 6.5 percent. In exceptional cases, such as nut and chocolate creams even increased by 26 percent. Ferrero's world-famous nut-nougat cream "Nutella" plays a key role in this, which consists of 20 percent palm oil per glass. Already weeks ago, experts in the ZDF business magazine "Wiso" had warned against the health risks of vegetable fat, which is extracted from the fruits and kernels of the oil palm.
Cheap fat is also bad fat that damages our body sustainably. Image: ralwel - fotolia During the industrial processing of palm fat, dangerous pollutants (fatty acid esters) are produced during the course of intense heating, which even in small quantities can lead to considerable damage to health and are considered carcinogenic.
In addition, experts repeatedly emphasize another negative aspect of palm oil. The production of rainforests, especially in Indonesia, is being cut down to a large extent in order to create sufficient space for the oil palm plantations. (No)